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System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Badger vs. Datomic vs. ObjectBox vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orggithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerwww.datomic.comobjectbox.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgerdocs.datomic.comdocs.objectbox.iodoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDGraph LabsCognitectObjectBox Limitedquasardb
Initial release20122017201220172009
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.0.6735, June 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infointeger and binary
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
GoClojure
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basednonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnonoyesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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